Scraper for plowmen s shoes



, (No Model.)

W. C. DE GRAPFENRIED 86. J. P. BEDDING, Jr.

' SGRAPER FOR PLOWMENS SHOES.

Patented Feb. 23, 1897.

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WILLIAM C. DE GRAFFENRIED AND JAMES P. BEDDING, JR, OF JASPER FLORIDA.

SCRAPER FOR PLOWMENS SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,727, dated February 23, 1897. Application filed November 16, 1895. Serial No. 569,172. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We,WILLIAM 0. DE GRAF- FENRIED and JAMES P. BEDDING, Jr. ,citizens of the United States, residing at Jasper, in the county of Hamilton and State of Florida, have invented a new and useful Scraper for Plowmens Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

Plowmen and others engaged in tilling or digging the soil have frequently experienced the need for an attachment or device to be applied to the shoe to facilitate the removal of soil clinging to the plow, shovel, or other implement employed in tillin g, loosening, or digging into the ground. The most general way for clearing the plow or implement of the ground adhering thereto is to bring the side of the shoe in engagement with the implement and remove the soil by a scraping action. This operation results disastrously to the shoe and wears the same away on one side.

The purpose of this invention is to provide the shoe with a metal scraper and to attach the same to the sole, whereby the operation is rendered easy and effective and the shoe relieved from all wear resulting from the common practice of using the same as a clearer or i scraper.

Fora full understanding of the merits and advantages of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings and the following description.

The improvement is susceptible of various changes in the form, proportion, andthe minor details of construction without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and to a full disclosure of the invention an adaptation thereof is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a plowmans boot, showing the invention applied; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a sole having the attachment fitted thereto. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the parts illustrated in Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a transverse section of the edge portion of the sole on the line X X of Fig. 2.

The same reference-numerals denote similar and corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

It will be understood that the attachment can be applied to either boots or shoes, and is illustrated in connection with a plowmans boot, which is represented by the numeral 1.

The scraper is secured to the edge portion of the sole 2, and comprises a clasp which embraces the sides of the sole and a projecting blade 3, the latter being about an eighth or more of an inch wide and three to three and a half inches in length, more or less, according to the size of the boot or shoe, the end portions of the blade being rounded to obviate possible injury. The scraper is constructed to be fitted to any boot or shoe, and is secured thereto in any convenient manner, either by copper rivets, cable screws, or any other substantial fastening means, which are driven through the clasp and the sole. The clasp comprises an upper lip 4 and a lower lip 5, which extend in parallel relation, the upper lip being narrow, so as not to interfere with the seam between the sole and the upper, and the lower lip 5 being wide, so as to obtain a firm purchase on the lower side of the sole and to receive the fastenings by means of which the attachment is secured in proper relation.

The scraper is constructed of metal, and

may be malleable cast or formed from sheet metal, the latter being the usual construction, in which case the blank will be folded upon itself and the portions adjacent to the fold pressed firmly together, so as to provide the blade 3, the upper part being bent to extend along the edge of the sole and over the same, as shown most clearly in Fig. 4.. The blade 3 is in the plane of the lower lip, as this position has been found to give the best results.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is As a new article of manufacture, a scraping attachment for boot and shoes constructed of sheet metal whichiis bent or doubled upon itself between its edges, and having a portion bent about at right angles a short distance from the fold to form a blade and again bent to extend parallel with the portion from which it departed and forming therewith lips to receive the edge portion of the sole, one of the lips having openings to receive fastenings, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM 0. DE GRAFFENRIED. JAMES P. BEDDING, Jn. Witnesses:

C. D. BLACKWELL, J. V. CHANOY. 

